Barbara Rose Johnston

Barbara Rose Johnston is an award-winning anthropologist and senior research fellow at the Center for Political Ecology in Santa Cruz and an affiliated member of the faculty at Michigan State and the University of California Santa Cruz where she explores the intersect between environment, health and human rights. Her research experience includes a major focus on the biomedical, psychosocial, cultural, and environmental impacts of the U.S. nuclear weapons testing program, including the history and consequences of its classified human radiation experimentation program. Since 1999 she has served as a scientific advisor and expert witness for the Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal. Recent books of hers include: Half-lives and Half-truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War; Consequential Damages of Nuclear War - The Rongelap Report; and the newly released Life & Death Matters: Human Rights, Environment and Social Justice.